Snezhana Stoyanova

I have been painting ever since I remember myself. I was happier with my creative work prior to starting to ask myself the question: Why do I do it? Each attempt at a rational reply to irrational desires is always a hardship. And yet, the passion itself in painting suggests me that creative work saves me from the mechanized spiritlessness; it provides me with possibility to create my own worlds and feel authentic.
I feel painting as the most complete opportunity to have polemical dialogues with myself, to unite time and space in colors and figures; to recreate my dreams with eyes open; especially in the sleepless moments of dawn. I try to analyze and summarize emotions, to look beyond the apparent.
The means of expression, which can be said to creep into almost all my work are passing, intertwining between worlds, dematerializing the material, creating a rhythm in chaos, and sometimes, depending on the mood, chaos in the order.
I feel that in my paintings I seem to find the most accurate place of man, torn between his primary nature and the imposed social conventions. Art helps me to intuitively explore the human connections between words and thoughts, and to distinguish the consequences of actions. I am happy to be able to recr...

In 1980 I was admitted to the National Art School of Fine Arts “ Ilia Petrov” in Sofia. I felt really happy, just in my place. I liked the school, the teachers, my classmates. I could talk a lot about my years in art school, because that is the time that shaped me the most as an artist and the person I am now. I owe a lot to certain people and I am very grateful to them. I graduated from high school in 1985.

After that I studied at the National Art Academy of Arts “Nikolay Pavlovich” in Sofia, specialty “Textile” and graduated in 1993, Master's degree.

Member of the Union of Bulgarian Artists since 1999.

Active participation in exhibitions in the country and abroad since 1989 .

Participation in joint art exhibitions:
1992 – Spring Salon – Sofia
1993 - Spring Salon – Sofia
1994 - Spring Salon – Sofia
1995 - Spring Salon – Sofia, Autumn Salon - Sofia
1996 - Spring Salon – Sofia, Autumn Salon - Sofia
1997 - Spring Salon – Sofia
1998 - Spring Salon – Sofia, Autumn Salon - Sofia
1999 - Exhibition for admission to the Union of Bulgarian Artists - Sofia
2000 - Spring Salon – Sofia
2021 - Virtual exhibition "Monumetal" curated by Sergio Gomez - Chicago

Solo exhibition:
1992 – collection of copyrighted fashion fabrics and knitted clothing – Artist’s Home – Vratza
1993 – Art Textile Exhibition – sculptures and panels – Gallery “Any Co” – Sofia
1999 – exhibition – paintings, drawings and textile – “Gallery 11 Brothers Kadinovi” – Sofia
2011 – Exhibition of photo collage “Touch” – Gallery „Sofia-press” – Sofia
2012 – Exhibition textile photo collages “Cross-imagery” („Krastoobraznitsi”) – Cite Internationale des Arts – Paris
2012 – Exhibition textile photo collages „Diffusion” – Hotel Festa Chamkoria – Borovets resort

Participations in international exhibitions:
1989 – Kiev – paintings, drawings
1993 – Fair in Belgra...